Author: Thomas J. Watson

Quotes

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

- Thomas J. Watson

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

- Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

- Thomas J. Watson

Good design is good business.

Good design is good business.

- Thomas J. Watson

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

- Thomas J. Watson

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

- Thomas J. Watson

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

- Thomas J. Watson

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

- Thomas J. Watson

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

The best way to supervise your men is from their reports that they make out.

- Thomas J. Watson

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